Our discrimination of things, when that discrimination is informed by observable merit,
is always a good thing it is something which reveals good judgement [if it is present].
Yadda said.....
http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1602939749/3#3SELECTING FOR MERIT, isn't about [a criteria of,] 'which people' [to select].
It isn't about selecting 'people'.
It isn't ABOUT a white person, or a brown person, or a yellow person [being 'selected'].
ARGUMENT;
SELECTING FOR MERIT, is about OBSERVABLE values and OBSERVABLE standards.
e.g.
When i go to the supermarket, and i reject spoiled fruit,
i'm exercising discrimination [choice!].
Because, i want my fruit to have 'merit'..
Yadda said
http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1576731498/23#23 Quote:It is our God given right [or the right of every self-aware being] to 'discriminate' in this life.
To have the right,
to choose one thing, over another.
And the world around us, to varying degrees, will judge us, for our choices.
Having
the SKILL, to recognise and to
value [i.e. to
appreciate] the difference [between
different things and
different personal traits and
personal 'inclinations'], is called
'discrimination'.
Dictionary;
discrimination = =
1 the action of discriminating against people.
2 recognition and understanding of the difference between one thing and another. good judgement or taste.Dictionary;
discriminating = = having or showing good taste or judgement..
Yadda said....
http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1514959351/11#11 Quote:
Merit is a social construct.
When i'm in the supermarket, i won't select bruised, over-ripe or spoiled fruit.
I like my fruit to have 'merit'.
I'm discriminatory, when it comes to my fruit selection.
That makes me a fruit racist.
Which is also a social construct.
We shouldn't choose the make up of our national sporting teams on merit.
We should select 2 whites ones, and 2 yellow ones, and 6 brown ones.
Because everyone has equal merit.
Thats why no 'country shopping' Vietnamese are rushing the Somali border, to get in.
But why 'country shopping' Vietnamese are trying to sneak across the UK border.
.....because Somalia and the UK have equal merits, as places to be desired, to live in.
.....which is an absurd assertion.
And when i go to the supermarket later in the week to restock my larder, i'm still going to reject bruised, over-ripe or spoiled fruit.
Because its the discriminatory thing to do.
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Yadda said somewhere.....
Quote:
"We are all the same. And there is no difference between us.", is the mantra that the humanists keep repeating.
But don't believe it!
Because it is our personal value systems [that have formed within us, from childhood until adulthood], which define who we are, as individuals.
And it is the - individual - which helps to define [the nature and the character of] his immediate 'environment' [i.e. the nature and the character of his community], and it is the collection of [those] communities [within a nation] that define the nature and character of a nation.